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Retro Rocket
The recording studio looks like a shantytown, with its walls made of blankets and sheets held together by bungee cords and plastic clips. It...
He’s Looking for Loopholes
Static thought it was reading The Onion last week instead of My San Antonio. The item said Governor-elect Greg Abbott had held a private...
Send Us Your Dangerous Waste
A controversial storage facility in West Texas for low-level nuclear waste could become the repository for much more hazardous forms of radioactive waste in...
Smoke Signals
The $1.1 trillion federal spending bill Congress recently passed is loaded with so many Wall Street giveaways that it’s sick-making — like eating an...
Owning Up
I’ll always love my Great Aunt Flossie. As a youngster, rocking on her front porch in Galveston, I sat enthralled, listening to her yarns...
Music on the Edge
The artist named Vincent couldn’t have had a good Christmas Eve. His head was bandaged, he’d been in a fight that day, and the...
Beer and Sausage …
Making beer is a heady process, so to speak, full of rich smells and flavors and delicate arts.
Making beer law, on the other hand,...
Republicans, We Hardly Know Ye
I’m curious — what has happened to the Republican Party? After all, these are the people who like to tell Americans they are the...
Believe What We Tell You, Not What You See
Static was pretty impressed when Denton decided to ban hydraulic gas fracking within its city limits in early November. Naturally, the gas industry is...
Bringing Home the Globe
Bhavani Parpia’s trip to India in 2011 changed her life and affected many thousands of students and educators around the world.
As the international business...
